msd-locate-pointer temporarily steals the keyboard focus

[wigy-opensource-developer]

Hi! On a multi-monitor setup I love to just press-and-release one of the Ctrl buttons and the ripple reveals my mouse cursor when I lost it.

It took me a while to realize though why some web pages or desktop applications behaved weird when I tried to paste into them using Ctrl+V... The reason was that when I press Ctrl, the browser or app loses focus until I release the button. Some text fields react to lost or regained focus by resetting selection or caret as an application-defined behavior.

Is there a way to leave the "Locate Position" setting on, get the ripples, but implement it in a way that the keyboard focus is not lost to the active application?

Distro: Ubuntu MATE 15.10

$ dpkg-query -W mate-settings-daemon
mate-settings-daemon    1.10.2-1

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[wigy-opensource-developer]

I have retested it in Ubuntu MATE 16.04 and the issue is still present.

$ dpkg-query -W mate-settings-daemon
mate-settings-daemon    1.12.1-2build1

[monsta]

@XRevan86: how do you think, is it fixed now after your changes to pointer locater?

[XRevan86]

@monsta, yep.